Juste Choquet

Juste Choquet (4 June 1778-6 July 1857) was a colonel of the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Choquet was born in the city of Le Blanc, approximately 40 miles to the east of Poitiers in central France. He was enlisted into the French army during the levee en masse of 1794 and he fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and later the Napoleonic Wars. Choquet was promoted to Colonel in 1814 when France prepared to defend itself from invasion by the Sixth Coalition, leading a regiment of Fusiliers of Line. In the Battle of Bar-le-Duc, he led a regiment of Line Fusiliers in the center of the French line and aided in the repulse of the Austrians, leading a bayonet charge against Austrian forces close to his segment of the line. Choquet was given the Legion of Honor, and was put out of service in April when Prussian and Russian troops occupied Paris.

Choquet resumed his military career as Colonel of a regiment of National Guard troops in Poitiers, where he died in 1857.